About 40 high school students will attend the Young Reporters for the Environment workshop. These students, supervised by their teachers, come from five high schools in the Dakhla prefecture. The workshop will focus on topics such as the approach for collecting field information, formatting for the reader, and journalistic and photographic techniques.

In parallel to the program launch workshop, practical workshops will be organized to enable Young Reporters to learn closely about technical reporting and photography.

These workshops will be supervised by members of the National Jury of the Young Reporters for the Environment program.

Each year, a national award ceremony closes the program. The winners’ work that has been awarded by the national jury is then sent to the FEE in Paris to compete at the European level. In fact, the Moroccan participation was awarded every year since 2003.

After joining the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in July 2002, the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection has decided to implement the Young Reporters for the Environment in Morocco in partnership with the Ministry of Education. This program is an international network of teachers and students, who, under the guidance of their teachers, are investigating a theme related to their immediate environment (waste, water, energy, biodiversity, transportation, air etc.).

The second workshop will involve 12 schools represented by management, faculty, and some students.

Practical workshops are scheduled to allow students to present their work and highlight some initiatives in terms of environmental actions and awareness about environmental conservation.

Eco-Schools is an international environmental education program, and a label that is awarded to elementary and secondary schools that are committed to the environment.

In participating institutions, students, teachers, management and staff work successively on five key topics: food, biodiversity, waste, water and energy. As part of the curriculum and in partnership with local elected officials, community groups and parents lead diagnostics to yield concrete results in order to improve environmental management within their school.

As part of the strategic partnership between the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Education, the different Eco-Schools in the Kingdom participating in the project also make up a network to exchange experiences and best practices in order to benefit from initiatives undertaken by others.